Stunning!

I zapravo je najbolje od svega posljednjih desetak stranica koje nisu Wildeove (u izdanju: Pjesme u prozi=Poems in prose/Oscar Wilde, s engleskoga preveo Luko Paljetak, pogovor Andre Gide; Zagreb, Ceres, 2002.) Andre Gide o Oscaru - u tih par stranica me oborio s nogu. Ne znam je li me se više dojmio Oscar ili Gideov način prepričavanja i pisanja.

As with all things Oscar Wilde, rather you "get it" or not, you can't help but be lulled into a dreamy state of hypnosis. Poems in Prose is a collection of six very short vignettes that are over before they start, but they are beautiful. I always want to describe Wilde's words as "creamy," because the luxury of them is indescribable any other way.

Do I wanna make a cult that worships him? - Yes.

"One evening there came into his soul the desire to fashion an image
of THE PLEASURE THAT ABIDETH FOR A MOMENT. And he went forth into
the world to look for bronze. For he could think only in bronze. But all the bronze of the whole world had disappeared, nor anywhere
in the whole world was there any bronze to be found, save only the
bronze of the image of THE SORROW THAT ENDURETH FOR EVER.

Now this image he had himself, and with his own hands, fashioned,
and had set it on the tomb of the one thing he had loved in life.
On the tomb of the dead thing he had most loved had he set this
image of his own fashioning, that it might serve as a sign of the
love of man that dieth not, and a symbol of the sorrow of man that
endureth for ever. And in the whole world there was no other
bronze save the bronze of this image.

And he took the image he had fashioned, and set it in a great
furnace, and gave it to the fire.

And out of the bronze of the image of THE SORROW THAT ENDURETH FOR
EVER he fashioned an image of THE PLEASURE THAT ABIDETH FOR A
MOMENT."

These selections are short, sweet, and definitely meaningful- they have the ability to convey a profound point in a very small amount of words, which I find fascinating- I'm not sure how common this style is, but it doesn't surprise me that Wilde tried it out, mainly because it seems like he played around with lots of different ways of writing. I enjoy the shortness of these little "blurbs" because they are easy to read, but they really do make you think because they end so abruptly. I remember reading "The Artist", which I have provided above, and rereading it a couple of times through. After I did this, I just sat there and said, "Huh!"

I think that these would definitely work as "bedside reading" stories, because they are short, but they make you think. Excellent!

Cada vez más encantado con Wilde. No hay forma de no caer en sus hechizos. Buscando sobre su vida me impresiona lo poco que se reflexiona sobre esta y casi todo queda en escándalos de su vida. Lo que más encanta de Wilde no es que sepa narrar la experiencia homosexual, sino que entiende la experiencia humana.

Un Oscar Wilde más oscuro que de costumbre, sin mucho humor, pero con un abanico de temas que van desde la moral victoriana hasta el cuestionamiento de la filosofía cristiana. Precisamente uno de los cuentos más impactante que encontramos aquí es El maestro de la sabiduría que cuestiona de forma feroz cómo los líderes espirituales deben probar su fe para obtener el perfecto amor de Dios. Bastante impresionante.

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"Pero yo amaba a Narciso porque, cuando se sentaba junto a mis orillas y miraba mis aguas, en el espejo de sus ojos yo veía reflejada mi propia belleza."

Oh just okay

Mis expectativas eran altas, pero no logré empatizar con estas historias y/o poemas.
Sentí que leía un pedazo de la biblia.
Aunque el último si me gustó lo suficiente.

Religious stories from an Atheist. As always many questions raised with no answers found. A very nice and short read with an infinite amount of possible interpretations

Oscar Wilde nos presenta diferentes historias con su deliciosa prosa que nos trasporta a diferentes lugares, aunque no todos llegaron a ser entendibles, la familiaridad que comparte es asombrosa.
Los títulos que continen:
- El artista
- El hacedor del bien
- El discípulo
- El maestro
- La casa del juicio
- El maestro de la sabiduría
- El poeta en los infiernos
- La historia del hombre que vendió su alma
- El arte y el amante
- Naboth y Jezabel
- Simón el cirineo

I don’t think they are really poems. They’re probably what can be called in our time, “very short stories.”

I love the way Wilde utilizes mythology to make beautiful tales.

In the end of “The Disciple”, he wrote: “And the pool answered, ‘But I loved Narcissus because, as he lay on my banks and looked down at me, in the mirrors of his eyes I saw ever my own beauty mirrored.’”